April 1947 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1947 Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
• 03 Apr 1947 Barefoot Boy with Cheek opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 performances
• 04 Apr 1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
• 06 Apr 1947 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins his second Masters golf tournament, shooting a 281.
• 08 Apr 1947 Largest recorded sunspots (7,000) observed.
• 09 Apr 1947 Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher for one year.
• 10 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball
• 11 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
• 15 Apr 1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio.
• 16 Apr 1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York City, New York).
• 17 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit.
• 18 Apr 1947 Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tons of explosives in an attempt to demolish the fortified island of Heligoland, Germany, thus creating one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history.
• 19 Apr 1947 Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon
• 20 Apr 1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark.
• 25 Apr 1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in Saint Louis, to become wrestling champion.
• 26 Apr 1947 Bless the Bride musical opens in London
• 27 Apr 1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and throughout the US.
• 28 Apr 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 30 Apr 1947 Boulder Dam in Colorado, USA, renamed Hoover Dam in honor of Herbert Hoover.

Famous Birthday

• Iggy Pop

  American musician, a punk rocker.

• David Letterman

  American contemporary humorist and talk show host, the winner of an Emmy as Best Host and Best Writer for a Daytime Variety Series, "The...

• Johan Cruyff

  Dutch soccer champ, winner of the European Cup three times along with Ajax of Amsterdam.

• James Woods

  American actor with a gift for playing charming bad guys.

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  American basketball star and collegiate champion who made his professional start with the Milwaukee Braves in 1969.

• Michel Leeb

  French comedian, actor and singer.

• Camille Paglia

  American writer, scholar, iconoclast, speaker and neo-pagan, known for--among other things--her anti-feminist backlash.

• Emmylou Harris

  American guitarist and singer of country and rockabilly, a nine-time Grammy winner in mixed categories, voted by the Country Music...

• Michèle Torr

  French singer and author, best known in non-Francophone countries for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1966 and 1977.

• Ludmila Mikaël

  French stage and film actress, born to painter Pierre Dmitrienko, she was a member of the 'Comédie-Française".

• Dominique Baudis

  French politician, Mayor of Toulouse, formerly journalist (foreign correspondent and news anchor).

• Olga Karlatos
• Tom Clancy

  American author best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines that are set during and in the aftermath...

• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

  Filipino academic and politician 14th President of the Philippines.

• John Ratzenberger

  American actor who established himself as Cliff, the know-it-all mailman, a regular on the top hit TV show, Cheers.

• Marylise Lebranchu

  French politician who serves as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

• Leslie Grantham

  British homicide and actor involved in some of the highest-rating appearances on "EastEnders," February 1985 until his last episode in...

• Pierre-André Périssol
• Bunny Wailer

  Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (Bob Marley and the Wailers).

• Robert Kiyosaki

  American businessman co-founded Cashflow Technologies.

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Famous Deaths

• Konrad Friedrich Noetel

  Composer, dies at 43.

• Vaclav Kapral

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Christian F L Leipoldt

  South African writer (Die Moormansgat).

• Wolstenholme

  Rocker.

• Josef Tiso

  Slovakian leader (Born 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler.

• King Christian

  X of Denmark (Born 1870).

• Hans Biebow

  German WWII figure (Born 1902).

• William O'Donnell

  Irish politician (Born ?).

• Rudolf Hoss

  commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Born 1900).

• Henry Ford

  American entrepreneur and noted family, the eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford and grandson of industrial tycoon Henry Ford.

• Henry Ford

  American auto entrepreneur, father of the Model T and initiator of mass production with his automobiles.

• Irving Fisher

  American economist and statistician (d. 1947).

• George II

  George II of Greece (d. 1947).

• Herbert Backe

  German agronomist and politician (d. 1947).

• Louise Peete

  American murderer (Born 1880).

• Benny Leonard

  lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), dies at age 51.

• George King

  American noted family, the son of Admiral King, a distinguished Naval Commander for whom King Hall at the Naval Postgraduate School, is...

• Willa Cather

  American author and poet (d. 1947).

• Christian X

  King of Denmark (1912-47), dies at age 76.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Art Lund - Mam'selle
2. Eddy Howard & His Orchestra - My Adobe Hacienda
3. Harry James & His Orchestra - Heartaches
4. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Roses in the Rain
5. Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Linda